Basic Identification
Gender: male
Ethnicity:
Immigration:
Attributed Race: white
Free or Enslaved: free
Birth & Family
Birth Date: 1876/03/21
Birthplace: Nelson County, Virginia
Mother: Laura (or Maggie?) Lighton Wood
Father: William Massey Wood
1st Spouse: Maude Sarah Fisher Wood
2nd Spouse: male
Age Details
Age: 42
Age Group: adult (20-59)
Life Details
Occupation(s): moulder; shoemaker; shoe factory stamper
Last Church:
Military Service:
Last Residence: Richmond, Virginia
Last Address: Memorial Hospital
Death
Death Date: 1918/10/21
Death Note: none
Place of Death: Richmond, Virginia
Cause of Death: influenza with pneumonia
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1918/11/03
Funeral Home: Diuguid AND H. W. Woody, Richmond, Virginia
Diuguid ID Number: D1818306
Indigent?: private interment
Gravesite and Grave Marker Data
Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: yes
Section: 303.L
Confirmation Source for Location: gravemarker
Grave Marker Erector(s):
Confirmation Source for Interment: gravemarker
Notes
N.B. The Diuguid record indicates burial in Spring Hill Cemetery, but the tombstone is clearly in OCC.
Others In Same Plot (T0152)
Obituary and Biographical Detials
Married 29 November 1899, Campbell County, Virginia
1910 census: Forest Avenue (now Langhorne Road), Lynchburg, “shoe factory stamping”, wife Maude and four children
1910 LCD: employed at West End Factory, residence “Dearington”
1915 & 1916 LCDs: shoemaker, residence 515 McKinley Avenue (now Fort Avenue)
There is a “Melvin S. Wood” in the 1917 and 1918 Richmond city directories–could be same person.
According to WWI draft registration card, he lived in Richmond, Virginia, at 2318 Venable Street, and was a coremaker for the American Locomotive Co. in Richmond
Gravestone was provided by the Woodmen of the World
According to descendant Aubrey Booth, Melvin Wood was a charter member of Euclid Avenue Christian Church. He and his son William helped to dig the foundation for this church. He was a choir member and superintendent of the Sunday school.